Premiered at the Market
Theatre, Johannesburg in 1987, the spectacular black musical Sarafina transferred to Broadway, was a smash hit, and is currently enjoying a successful run at London's
Hackney Empire. This documentary intersperses excerpts from the New York production with the stark comments of the young South African cast about their troubled homeland. They talk of the sorrow of apartheid, and of their hopes for the future. The film closes with an emotional meeting with the great, once exiled singer, Miriam Makeba.
A Lincoln Centre/Noble Enterprises production